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THE ROYAL NEIGHBOR. 0 Things Worth Knowing. straight line leading to the target. The proper elevation is found by a calculation considering the attraction of gravity and the velocity of the shot. The shot describes a curve in its course which is called the trajectory, and in the case of this big gun its highest point would be 30,516 feet, or nearly six miles above the earth.

of gain in the whole number of inhabitants. I These facts mean that the Amerijcan people are more careful than ever (before to give all of their children the advantages of an education. It" is proved that the schools are more highly esteemed and better supported than at any former period in our national. history. That is a point of the utmost interest and significance.

There can be no better guarantee of the permanent welfare and steady progress of the greatest of republics. to such an extent that a very pleasant ceremony might be in order. A late writer explains why 1900 will not be a leap year: Every fourth year, according to our calendar, is ordinarily a leap-year, with 366 days, because the natural year of the earth's actual revolution the sun has a length of about 365i days. The four quarters of ex: cess are gathered up once in four years, and one day added to the calendar year. But the excess of the natural year over 365 days is not quite Education of Children in Russia.

The death of Vice-President Garrett A. Hobart makes Secretary of State John Hay heir-apparent to the presidency. Should President McKinley die, under the law Secretary Hay would become president. one-quarter or a day. 11 may De rep With our school houses on every resented by the decimal .242216 rather hill-tnr.

t.h advantages of free nubile mus uie icap-jcai rection corrects, as we may say, a schools is not as fully appreciated in Uttle toQ much. 'how much OQ much wrmld ho T.frrApnt.frl hv the, difference between .242216 and .250000. That dif the United States as in countries where the masses do not enjoy these advantages. The wave of advancement, how- .1 .1 th United States as in countries where ever, is sweeping onwaru, aim -many If you think you ought to change your glasses because you cannot see as clearly with them as formerly, try washing them with soap and water. It will remove the film which gathers upon them and resists rubbing with a cloth or chamois.

One Effect of Chloroform. countries across the sea now in darkness, so far as the education of the ference is .007784, which in 400 years will amount to 3.1136, which is corrected, except the small fraction of a day .1136, about one-ninth, by counting three of the four century years as not leap-year. It is agreed that 1700, 1800 and 1900 have only 365 days, but 2000. endincr the cycle of four centu common people are concerned, will be forced by, a desire for self-preservation to extend greater privileges and edu- ries, will have 366. The next cycle, tional advantages to these now grop- opening after 2000, will count ZlOU, 2200 and 2300 not lean-vears.

having in ignorance. The work is al only 365vdays, but 2400 will be leap- America's Greatness. The greatness of the United States can be realized only by comparison with other nations. While we at home have heard much about our resources, yet there has been back of it all the idea that, for a new country, or for one of the younger nations, we were great, but that there were still greater countries across the water. But now it is realized that the United States is the greatest of all nations'.

Take the matter of roads in the United States in 1898 operating by electricity. The Street Railway Journal gives the number as 954, with a track mileage of 15,672, over which run 36,429 motor cars and 7,914 trailers. A recent report also of 1898 gives the number of roads operating in all Europe by electricity as only 248, the number of motor cars at 5,743. Of these 206 use overhead conductors, 10 central or third rail, 14 storage batteries solely, 8 trolley and storage batteries, 3 combined trolley and conduit. Storehouse of the Nation.

Denver Post. It is hard to imagine how this country ever got along without the west, in the days before the west was settled, its soil cultivated and the products shipped away to support not only, the east, but millions beyond the ocean. To be sure, the wants of the east were then not so great nor so diversified as they are now, and the people worried along with much less, because they had to. Today the west is depended upon to provide for almost everything in the way of farm products, and it does so from year to year, does it in a matter-of-fact manner as if it had been used to it for ages instead of generations. ii i ready starting.

An exchange says: Russia is moving ramdlv towards year again. Different Races in the Phiiippines. Anything relating to the people of the system of compulsory education. The first experiment is to be made in when it comes to taking chloroform," said an old surgeon the other day to a New Orleans Times-Democrat reporter. "Some fight like lunatics and some drift off to sleep as placidly as babies; some will babble incessantly all through an operation and some will remain silent, but grit their teeth and the city and government oi reiers-Viiitmjv from whio.h it will be extended the Philippines is read -with interest, pending a solution of the great prob throughout the fifty governments of lems to be solved regarding the future of those islands.

A writer in Harper's clench their hands exactly as if they European Russia, 'mere, are aireaay in the capital and its suburbs 835 schools, accommodating 76,000 children, and these are to be immediately crl hv addition of 528 others. Weekly compiles from authorities the were conscious of pain. There is no way to tell in advance what is going to following statement of the races now -y Each school will serve an area of two- inhabiting these islands: nnd.n.hnlf miles in circumference. "Be happen, and that reminds me of a curious story. A "good many years 1.

The Visavans. Thesare Ro sides these, for young children living sides these, for young children Irving the at a distance, 114 night asyhmifartrto di of the central and num-vo Tiyrkviflpil in the various districts so rt r. mi allied ago I was called upon to perform an operation on a planter who lived some little distance up the river and had' lkV- her about 2,500,000. There are tribes scattered from northeastern Mindanao to Mindoro and Calamianes. that, negligent parents will have no excuse for keeping their children away crushed his foot in a cane grinder.

from school. 2. The Tagals, Tagalogs, or These also are Roman Catholic The country doctor who attended him Malays, living in Central Luzon, and Foreign Commerce Increasing. We all consider the United States sent for me to come up to do the surgical work, and I decided to take off number about 1,200,000. The strengtn of the insurrection is among them.

3. The non-Malay savage aboriginal the greatest nation on the great round the last three toes. I had never met my patient before, and found him a globe, and rejoice at her constant tribes. Thev live in northern Luzon, growth in every direction. Not only in central Mindanao, in northern Pa- -T 1 are her people steadily advancing the nav.

and in JNegros, ana numner irom grave, middle-aged man, with a strikingly handsome face, and refined manners. His wife, who was very much younger, seemed to be deeply in love 300,000 to 400,000. To them belong the moral tone of the country, which a comparison of the present with the conditions of fifty years ago clearly with him, and begged piteously to- be Igorotes, represented in the nattie or February 5 by a band of bowmen. 4. The Moros or Sulus.

These are Mohammedan Malays occupying the email southern islands, with the south If one will consider alone tne suppiy of cereals which annually finds its way from western farms to the markets of the world, he will be astounded at its extent. And what is going out is only the surplus; the home consumption is nnt, r.mintfid in this calculation, which demonstrates, but in material wealth and trade are enviable advances being ern and eastern coasts of Mindanao made. Our foreign commerce is in and the southern extremity of Pal a- 1 fTIAA ri 4. creasing, as the following shows: itcoif ia fitimfindous. Take the wan.

They numner irom io in the Treasury Department allowed to remain in the room during the operation, but the planter refused to consent, and made me pledge him my word of honor that she would be kept out. Not only that, but he insisted upon her leaving the house and going to a neighbor's. As soon as he took the first few inhalations of chloroform I was sincerely dad she was absent, for he became 300,000. Their capital is Sulu, and with their Sultan the U. S.

officers have made an agreement which acknowledges the sovereignty of the at Washington to September 17, 1899, show that the foreign commerce of the TTUori stnfps in the month of August, TTnited states, while the Sultan's gov 1899, was the largest in the history of ernment is continued in local affairs. fi. There are several other Malay that month. The exports were neariy 25 per cent, higher than those of August in the years 1894, 1895 and 1896, yj i. xi.ivii breadstuff's, the cattle, the hogs, the sheep, the poultry and game, the butter and eggs, the fruits and vegetables, and one may realize how a temporary break in supply would produce a famine not only in eastern parts of the country, but in Europe as well.

The west amply justifies its existence, whether in agricultural or mineral production, and while superficial people on the Atlantic border have some immediately delirious and struggled tribes, as the Ilocanos, Pampangos and Zambales, in northern and western Luzon, the Bicols, or Vicols, of southern Luzon, and the Subanos, of while for the eignt monins oi me vear ending with August they were the highest in our history. The furiously. Then, to my intense surprise, he poured out a torrent of hideous profanity. I never listened to anvthing more brutal and shocking, total exports for tne eignt monius enu-: iRou 'Ptv $792,505,332. ooinct.

fi77K.fiT.207 in 1898. 330 in 1897, and $602,298,472 in the great export year of 1892. times sneered at it, it is a question of more than passing consequence what-they and theirs and the country at large could do without The growth in exports is uum agricultural products and manufactures. The August exportation of breadstuffs was in 1899, against $19,909,329 in August, 19, $25,513,491 in August, 1897, and and he kept it up all the time I the knife. After the operation was over and he regained his senses he was as quiet and courtly as ever.

Later on I learned that he had been a rough river man in his youth and had obtained his education, made his fortune and married late in life. It was his constant study to overcome his early deficiencies. Whether he had any premonition when he sent his wife away I can't say, but it was a wise thing to do, and gave me personally a valuable suggestion." 618,733 in August, 1896. Of provis southern Cebu. 6.

The Negritos little blacks are an aboriginal race, sometimes called Aetas. They number from 10,000 to 20,000, are in physique and intelligence the most degraded race in the islands. 7. The Chinese live at or near the seaports, and number about 100,000. 8.

The inhabitants of European origin number about 15,000. About Oar Presidents. George Washington died on the 14th of December, 1799. Cleveland and Harrison are the only ex-presidents now living. President Tyler died January 17, 1862, and Rutherford B.

Hayes died January 17, 1893. Three of our Presidents died on July 4. John Adams, the second, and Thomas Jefferson, the third president, both died on the same day, July 4, 1826. President Monroe died July 4, 1831. Items.

The. new sixteen-inch gun which is ions, the exportation or August, xovv, was $15,584,755, against $13,489,098 in August, 1898, $12,400,566 in August, 1897, and $10,489,152 in August, 1896. Mineral oils also show an increase, being for August, 1899, $6,565,009, against $5,010,507 in August, 1898, $5,691,276 in August, 1897, and in August, 1896. Taking the four great articles which are named in the advance statement of exports of domestic products breadstuff provisions, mineral oils and cotton the total for the month of August was against $44,558,510 in August of last year, $48,305,006 in August, 1897, and $36,631,485 in August, 1896. Why 1900 is Not a Leap Year.

One year in every four is not a leap year. The years when this is so are Growth of the Schools. The United States Commissioner of Education reports the number of pupils enrolled in all kinds and grades of schools in this country in 1898 as no less than 16,687,643. The increase from the preceding year was a little less than 500,000. In the enrollment of the colleges and universities alone the gain was about 4,000.

These figures, "says the Cleveland Leader, are vast, so vast that hey mean little as a measure of the growth of the educational system of the United States to the ordinary reader, lhey show that the schools are training an immense army of pupils, but they do not make it clear whether the increase in the host of scholars is as great as it ought tO'be. It must be explained, therefore, that the rate of increase in the enrollment of educational institutions, great and small, high and low, was about 3 per cent The 'growth of the population was not more than 2 per as nearly as it can be estimated ad- vance of any census. The rate of increase in the school attendance was probably one-half larger than the rate The Richmond Mutual Aid of Cincinnati has been incorporated. Your children will be more influenced by your walk than by your talk. The man is always learning who makes his mistakes teach him something.

Were God to send an angel to look for a king among men he would look for a man who could control himself. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in this, world keep the bad to yourself. nparlv comnleted at the Watervliet arsenal will have an extreme range of twenty-one miles and will carry a shot mimprniis. and we have all come weighing 2370 pounds, or more than a ton.

As the attraction of the earth draws a shot towards the ground from to count every fourth year as the ohe when worthy people, still unmarried, might with propriety encourage some other certain people, supposed to be restrained by bashfulness, the instant it leaves the muzzle of the gun it is necessary to aim above a.